PARKING BULLSHIT TOMAS!

City officials say they have no intention of privatizing the authority -- a move that has resulted in higher parking rates elsewhere, notably Chicago --

BULLSHIT!

THE BALLOT LANGUAGE

Authorizing discontinuance or modification of Off-Street Parking Department, transfer of assets, operation,
management and control

Shall the Miami Charter be amended to authorize the City Commission, by ordinance, to discontinue the Department of Off-Street Parking (DOSP) and the DOSP board, modify the DOSP board, transfer DOSP's assets to the City of Miami (City), allow for the operation, management and control of parking facilities by
the City or DOSP, and authorize the management, lease or sale of any or all of the parking facilities to a public or private entity?

Why the lies???

NO COJONES

Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado worked for more than eight years to see the opening of a brand-new fire station in Flagami. But on Saturday, Regalado and his fellow commissioners weren't there to celebrate the dedication of Fire-Rescue Station 11.

 

"I do resent it,'' Regalado said. ``At least they could have recognized that I worked many, many hours as a commissioner for that fire station. One thing has nothing to do with another.''

 

Pobrecito Tomasito!

Who is in charge here?

The Unions?  

You ARE the Mayor.

So why not show up?

 

Why are you so afraid of them?

You prefer playing the victim to the bad press?

Avoiding another "public relations nightmare."

Pobresito Tomasito!

 

No leadership.

No cojones.

SPECIAL: WHY PUBLIC SECTOR?

Young, African-American professional, well educated.

B.S. in Management, with a major in Accounting from Tulane University.  

Eight year private sector banking, with management experience in auditing, financial and regulatory accounting, and controller duties.  Also a Certified Public Accountant.

Sounds quite impressive.

And sounds like a well qualified professional who would be making a great living in the private sector, contributing to the City of Miami economy.

But Larry Spring is not in the private sector world, since 2003 he has been a public employee.

So why would someone with this much "talent" not be making money in the "real world" and instead be in the public sector?

The same question applies to "new media mogul" Will Plasencia, recently hired by our friend Chairman Marc David Sarnoff.

The answer?

Larry and Will know that life in the Miami private sector will NEVER be better than in the public sector.

It's part of our City's "Third World" charm bitches!

Take Larry for instance:

$171,000 base salary, plus the car and phone allowance.  

The six weeks paid vacation and the six weeks paid sick leave.

A pension.

And all this for relatively low pressure.  

With all the financial shenanigans going on at City Hall, any C.P.A. would have lost their license by now.

But not Larry.

He and Will know they'll never find a job like this anywhere.

Which is why Larry will do ANYTHING to keep his job.

And working for the city means Larry can keep his "OTHER" job.

Oh, you didn't know Larry has a side business?

It's not his fault, most high paid City bureaucrats have side businesses too...

   

DAY 362 - DOUBLE STANDARD

WE LOVE TOMAS, HE'LL SCREW THE ROOKIES AND HELP THE BRASS.  MORALE IS AT AN ALL TIME HIGH!!!

YOU ARE SO MUCH LIKE YOUR FATHER, YOU'RE BOTH FUCKING NUTS!  MIDNIGHT HOOPS LATER?

TOGETHER WE WILL RULE THE GALAXY (AT LEAST FROM N.W. 20th SOUTH)

MANNY? MANNY WHO? I NEVER WORKED FOR A GUY CALLED MANNY!

HOW MANY CITY WORKERS CAN YOU COUNT KIDS?

THESE BACK BACKS ARE MADE IN CHINA BY KIDS YOUR AGE, I LOVE THE CHINESE!

We find it highly ironic that the first document sent to Al Crespo after his challenge to city employees is a memo reminding firefighters about APM 1-81, Limitations on Political Activity.

It exposes the hypocritical double standard of the Tomasito administration where laws are meant for the rest of us while Tomasito and his pals can do whatever they want.

If you oppose the Mayor and his friends, like the firefighters did during their protest of the Miami Marina opening, then you are reminded of the law, the APMs and the repercussions for not following them.

You are ominously told that your supervisors will enforce compliance with these laws.

Meanwhile, if you are a friend of Tomas, these laws don't apply to you.

Mayor's Aide Jose Marrero can ride around in a city issued SUV campaigning for Tomas' daughter without a problem.

Mayor's Aide Jose "Pepe" Fulgueira can attend a bookbag giveaway for the Mayor's daughter, drive there in a city car, and campaign on city time, without a problem.

Mayor's Aide Ada Rojas can attend political rallies, hang out at the FOP in support of the Mayor, and even get arrested, without a problem.

The Mayor himself, who Diana Gomez described as a "24 hour mayor," can use city time and resources to campaign for his daughter, even having a City of Miami policeman drive him and his daughter to polling places on election day, without a problem.

So why should the firefighters be any different?

Either the laws apply to EVERYONE, or they don't apply at all.

But "it's Miami Bitches!"

Double Standard.

Mayor Tomasito, friends, felons, and lobbyists are above the law.

DAY 361 - ARRESTED?

GUESS WHERE MY THUMB HAS BEEN?

Rumors flying on Leo Affairs that Mayor Regalado Aide Ada Rojas was possibly "taken in" and arrested yesterday during President Obama's Miami visit.

Mayor's Aide 39'ed


Obviously the Mayor has nothing to say on this and the Herald has kept it quiet so far.

If she in fact was arrested, it is not the first Regalado Aide to have a brush with the law.

As we have documented in the past, Mayor Regalado's second floor City Hall office is a haven for felons, including Jose Marrero, a former special aide to disgraced County Commissioner Miriam Alonso.

"Court records show Marrero has faced criminal charges on three prior occasions: for cocaine possession in 1985, unemployment fraud in 1987, and making a false statement in 1999 as a result of the 1997 Miami election scandal. Adjudication was withheld in all cases, even though Marrero served probation in each instance."

At that time, "Marrero allegedly drove to job sites to work on the Alonsos' rental units and two contractors, one of whom, Isaiah Alvarez,  recalled Marrero driving ``what appeared to be a Miami-Dade County vehicle.''

Marrero still drives around town in a taxpayer paid vehicle, this time it's not county, but City of Miami.

Mayor Regalado also overlooked the potential criminal activity of Jose "Pepe" Fulgueira who may have violated state law by campaigning for the Mayor's daughter while on official city business.

Then again, our "24 hour mayor" was also caught campaigning for his daughter on our dime and time.

And it was Mayor Regalado who gave now deceased Mercado cop Pablo Camacho a no-show job as a "police liaison."

From the top on down, the man who promised us ethics, transparency, and accountability has been anything but.

Instead, Mayor "Keen Knack" surrounds himself with family, felons, and lobbyists, all feeding from the public trough.

Recall Alvarez?

Recall Regalado!

DAY 356 - HONORING A CRIMINAL

NOBEL LAUREATE

PR PUPPET

TWO FACED HYPOCRITE

Honoring a criminal.

That was the reaction of the Chinese government upon learning that dissident Liu Xiaobo had been awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for peace.

Liu is the first Nobel Laureate to be awarded the prize while incarcerated, he is currently serving an 11 year prison sentence for "subversion."

According to the New York Times:

"By awarding the prize to Mr. Liu, the Norwegian Nobel Committee provided an unmistakable rebuke to Beijing’s authoritarian leaders at a time of growing intolerance for domestic dissent and a spreading unease internationally over the muscular diplomacy that has accompanied China’s economic rise"

“If not for the work of Liu and the others to broker a peaceful withdrawal from the square, Tiananmen Square would have been a field of blood on June 4,” said Gao Yu, a veteran journalist and fellow dissident who was arrested in the hours before the tanks began moving through the city.

His most recent arrest in December 2008 came a day before a reformist manifesto he helped craft began circulating on the Internet. The petition, Charter ’08, demanded that China’s rulers embrace human rights, judicial independence and the kind of political reform that would ultimately end the Communist Party’s monopoly on power.

"For all these years, Liu Xiaobo has persevered in telling the truth about China and because of this, for the fourth time, he has lost his personal freedom,” his wife said in an interview on Wednesday. 

In the same way that Mayor Tomas Regalado honored the release of Cuban dissident Ariel Sigler (pictured above) and welcomed him at the airport during a staged press event...

We dare Mayor Tomas Regalado to maintain an intellectually honest and consistent opinion on human rights violations by Communists around the world and issue a statement on behalf of the people of Miami honoring Liu Xiaobo and rebuking the Communist Chinese government for their repeated violations of human rights.

That statement should be addressed directly to Mayor Regalado's new friend, one of the first people he received in December 2009 when he had just became Mayor, Chinese Consul General Gao.

After that meeting, the Chinese Consulate issued a statement saying how Mayor Regalado will "try his best to join hands with the Chinese Consulate General in Houston to promote bilateral exchanges and cooperation to bring more benefit for the people of China and Miami."

Hey Tomasito:

Tell that to Liu and the other Chinese dissidents and political prisoners, you two faced hypocrite!

DAY 355 - TOTAL RECALL!

Finally someone will do what Billionaire Braman won't:

Recall those actually responsible for the Miami-Dade tax increase.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media Contact: Vanessa Brito

Phone: 786.547.8084

E-mail: brito@yourmiamivoice.org

Petition Forms to Recall Five Miami-Dade County Commissioners to be Submitted Today

Miami, Fl (October 7, 2010) – Political Action Committee (PAC) Miami Voice heads to the Miami-Dade County Clerk of Courts office this morning to submit petition recall forms for five (5) of the 13 Miami-Dade County Commissioners. Miami Voice will launch a campaign to collect voter signatures calling for the recall of Barbara J. Jordan (District 1), Audrey M. Edmonson (District 3), Bruno A. Barreiro (District 5), Dennis C. Moss (District 9), and Natacha Seijas (District 13).

Miami Voice Chairman Vanessa Brito and Treasurer Barbara Walters will visit the Miami-Dade County Clerk of Courts office today at noon (12:00pm) seeking approval of the five petition forms. The recall effort comes as a response to the Commission vote approving a 14% property tax increase for Miami-Dade County homeowners. All five commissioners voted in favor of the increase.

“The recall effort is a direct response to the Board of County Commissioners and the decisions they have made over time that have led to this tax increase,” says Miriam Planas, Co-Chair of Miami Voice. “Residents have given commissioners countless opportunities to reverse the effects of their decisions, but they have continued to put their interests over ours. Now, we have to pay the price – this is unacceptable.”

Miami Voice’s effort is separate from Norman Braman’s campaign to recall Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez. Miami Voice supports Braman’s efforts and will collaborate in every way possible.

Let's see how much support Billionaire Braman will give this effort, and Mayor Regalado who begged Braman not to go after his friends Commissioners Boris Bruno and Natasha.

And what about City of Miami?

Can a recall effort for Commissioner Chairman Marc David Sarnoff, Esquire, be far away?